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Rick, Sorry it has taken me so long to respond to your message. I love playing the guitar. I still have my yamaha six string acustic. I put a martin thin line pickup in it, it sounds sweet. I shake so bad I cant strum or pick. I play right handed. Cording is easy. Only my right side is affected by pd and, I think, essential tremor. I type left handed and do everything I can left handed. This causes my right arm to weaken. I'm becoming aware of the need to exercise the right side to maintain muscle tone. I have no passive movement on my right side. I played the guitar every sunday at a nursing home. My mother-in-law teaches the sunday school lesson there. I did this for three years. I had to stop about a year ago.I still find avenues to exercise my desires for music. I love to sing, although not very good at it, I still try. I wrote gospel music and I'm currently working on an amateur recording. I still use gospel tracks to sing at the nursing home. Elderly folks have a special place in my heart.My grandparents were my parents from age five through eighteen. My mom died with a brain tumer at 29. I was afraid thats what I had but the mri brain scan showed no abnormality. Were taking it one day at a time. I still look at that guitar in the case with the expectations of playing again someday. For now I'm trying to teach my sixteen year old daughter to play it. This helps to scratch the itch a little. Thanks for your reply. Bfn. Your friend, Dave from Mississippi